www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Richard Nixonhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/richard-nixon/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Richard Nixonen-usThu, 30 Jul 2015 19:59:07 -0400ROBERT MERRY: Third-party candidates harm incumbents mosthttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/30/robert-merry-third-party-candidates-harm-incumbent/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The conventional wisdom is that an independent presidential bid by New York billionaire Donald Trump would harm the Republican candidate in 2016. That's probably incorrect. Most often, significant independent general-election candidacies harm the incumbent or incumbent party more than they do the challenging party.</p> <p>As Alan J. Lichtman and Ken ...Robert W. MerryThu, 30 Jul 2015 19:59:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/30/robert-merry-third-party-candidates-harm-incumbent/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSW. SCOTT LAMB: How Washington Shaped Chuck Colson, by Owen Strachanhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/28/w-scott-lamb-how-washington-shaped-chuck-colson/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Owen Strachan, friend and Baptist theologian, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/21/w-scott-lamb-abortion-is-wrong-because-people-bear/" target="_blank">spoke with us last week</a> regarding the Planned Parenthood videos, explaining the Christian doctrine of <em>Imago Dei</em>--that all people bear the image of God.</p> <p>During that interview, I was reminded that he has a book coming out this week about the life ...W. Scott LambTue, 28 Jul 2015 17:22:08 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/28/w-scott-lamb-how-washington-shaped-chuck-colson/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'Being Nixon: A Man Divided'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/27/book-review-being-nixon-a-man-divided/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>BEING NIXON: A MAN DIVIDED</p> <p>By Evan Thomas</p> <p>Random House, $35, 619 pages</p> <p>Slowly but surely, the ranks of the rabid Nixon haters are thinning, to be replaced by more thoughtful and temperate writers and historians, free from the fierce ideological biases of the last century, able to look at ...John R. Coyne JrMon, 27 Jul 2015 20:40:09 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/27/book-review-being-nixon-a-man-divided/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSEVAN THOMAS: The unseen human side of Richard Nixonhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/23/evan-thomas-the-unseen-human-side-of-richard-nixon/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>When Richard Nixon was president, he often complained to aides that the press did not understand his warm and generous side. His chief of staff, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, dutifully appointed "anecdotalists," members of the staff designated to collect heart-warming stories about the chief executive to be parceled out to the ...Evan ThomasTue, 23 Jun 2015 19:00:24 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/23/evan-thomas-the-unseen-human-side-of-richard-nixon/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDEBORAH SIMMONS: Summer jobs and the livin' still ain't easyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/8/summer-jobs-and-livin-still-aint-easy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ANALYSIS/OPINION:</strong></p> <p>With all due respect to DuBose Heyward and George Gershwin, "Summertime, and the livin' isn't easy.</p> <p>"We hoodwink the poor, and expectations aren't high,</p> <p>"Daddies aren't rich, and mommas are so-so lookin',</p> <p>"So why every year do we make folks sigh?"</p> <p>The opera "Porgy and Bess" featuring the music ...Deborah SimmonsMon, 08 Jun 2015 20:52:00 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/8/summer-jobs-and-livin-still-aint-easy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDEBORAH SIMMONS: Summer jobs programs fail youths seeking workforce successhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/8/deborah-simmons-summer-jobs-programs-fail-youths-s/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ANALYSIS/OPINION:</strong></p> <p>With all due respect to DuBose Heyward and George Gershwin, "Summertime, and the livin' isn't easy.</p> <p>"We hoodwink the poor, and expectations aren't high,</p> <p>"Daddies aren't rich, and mommas are so-so lookin',</p> <p>"So why every year do we make folks sigh?"</p> <p>The opera "Porgy and Bess" featuring the music ...Deborah SimmonsMon, 08 Jun 2015 21:40:05 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/8/deborah-simmons-summer-jobs-programs-fail-youths-s/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSMONICA CROWLEY: President Bush, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, and the American Dreamhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/22/monica-crowley-dana-perino-recounts-lessons-from-g/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>During the latter years of President George W. Bush's presidency, I remember watching a petite wisp of a woman step to the podium of the White House briefing room and answer the pointed barbs and hostile questions of a profoundly belligerent press corps. I admired her poise as she faced ...Monica CrowleyWed, 22 Apr 2015 17:48:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/22/monica-crowley-dana-perino-recounts-lessons-from-g/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSSUZANNE FIELDS: Selling the new Hillary Clintonhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/15/suzanne-fields-selling-the-new-hillary/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Joe McGinnis, a young writer who got access to the advertising agency with the Nixon account in 1968, changed the way we thought about electing presidents with his best-seller, "The Selling of the President." The very idea that a presidential candidate could be packaged like a tube of toothpaste, a ...Suzanne FieldsWed, 15 Apr 2015 17:49:05 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/15/suzanne-fields-selling-the-new-hillary/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSJerry Warren, former White House press secretary, dies at 84http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/21/jerry-warren-former-white-house-press-secretary-di/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>SAN DIEGO &mdash; Jerry Warren, the editor of San Diego's largest newspaper for 20 years and a White House press secretary during the Nixon and Ford administrations, has died. He was 84.</p> <p>Warren died Friday at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, after entering hospice care for cancer and pneumonia, U-T ...Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:16:03 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/21/jerry-warren-former-white-house-press-secretary-di/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSChina conducting 100-year ruse to deceive west into providing supporthttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/2/china-conducting-100-year-ruse-deceive-west-provid/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>China launched a secret 100-year modernization program that deceived successive U.S. administrations into unknowingly promoting Beijing's strategy of replacing the U.S.-led world order with a Chinese communist-dominated economic and political system, according to a new book by a longtime Pentagon China specialist.</p> <p>For more than four decades, Chinese leaders lulled ...Bill Gertz, The Washington Free BeaconMon, 02 Feb 2015 10:00:00 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/2/china-conducting-100-year-ruse-deceive-west-provid/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWESLEY PRUDEN: John Freeman a British diplomat not easily forgotten in Washington lifehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/1/wesley-pruden-john-freeman-a-british-diplomat-not-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Diplomats usually have a short shelf life. They're paid to retreat into the woodwork and lie for their country, as the old saying goes, but, with Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton celebrated exceptions, diplomats are here today and gone when a president is through with them, usually tomorrow. Like old ...Wesley PrudenThu, 01 Jan 2015 15:23:08 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/1/wesley-pruden-john-freeman-a-british-diplomat-not-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSCAL THOMAS: Obama puts illegal immigrants over loyal black American votershttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/24/cal-thomas-obama-puts-illegal-immigrants-over-loya/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Addressing the nation Thursday, President Obama sought to justify his misreading of the Constitution by unilaterally granting legal protection to 5 million illegal immigrants. In this, he reminded me of what Richard Nixon told David Frost in a 1977 interview. The exchange is worth recalling:</p> <p>Frost: "So what in a ...Cal ThomasMon, 24 Nov 2014 17:57:08 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/24/cal-thomas-obama-puts-illegal-immigrants-over-loya/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSJUDSON PHILLIPS: Where is the media on the Attkisson story?http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/28/judson-phillips-where-media-attkisson-story/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>On June 17, 1972, a group of men connected to then-President Richard Nixon committed what Nixon Press Secretary Ron Zeigler would call "a third-rate burglary."</p> <p>The media turned on Nixon.</p> <p>He was never popular with the left wing media. They had never forgiven him for his role in exposing communists ...Judson PhillipsTue, 28 Oct 2014 11:00:27 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/28/judson-phillips-where-media-attkisson-story/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSFEIN: Conditioning Senate confirmation of AG Holder's successorhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/28/fein-conditioning-senate-confirmation-ag-holders-s/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The U.S. Senate should condition confirmation of any nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder on express commitments under oath to investigate and prosecute through a special prosecutor the Obama administration's rampant lawlessness reminiscent of the Nixon administration and Watergate.</p> <p>The Watergate scandal, however, also occasioned the confirmation precedent for ...Bruce FeinSun, 28 Sep 2014 16:55:05 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/28/fein-conditioning-senate-confirmation-ag-holders-s/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSCROWLEY: The West may rise againhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/the-west-may-rise-again/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Not so long ago, the American West was fertile ground for conservative thought, action, and leadership. It was the region that remained most faithful to the nation's founding principles of personal freedom, rugged individualism, and economic freedom. It prided itself on being the nation's political frontier, a place that maintained ...Monica CrowleyWed, 16 Jul 2014 16:31:09 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/the-west-may-rise-again/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSGOP presents ethnic faces to California votershttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/gop-presents-ethnic-faces-to-california-voters/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>With less than four months to go before Election Day, Orange County Republicans in California are confident that at least two of the four Asian-American GOP women running in high-profile local and state races will emerge victorious, helping to change the face of the party overnight.</p> <p>The push to elect ...Seth McLaughlinWed, 16 Jul 2014 13:52:08 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/gop-presents-ethnic-faces-to-california-voters/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBOOK REVIEW: 'The Greatest Comeback'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/book-review-the-rebirth-of-richard-nixons-politica/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>THE GREATEST COMEBACK: HOW RICHARD NIXON ROSE FROM THE DEAD TO CREATE THE NEW MAJORITY<br />By Patrick J. Buchanan<br />Crown Forum, $28, 392 pages</p> <p>In the 1960s, the country was running out of control &mdash; race riots, cities burning, assassinations, campus anarchy. The producers who did the nation's work and ...John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington TimesTue, 08 Jul 2014 19:15:10 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/book-review-the-rebirth-of-richard-nixons-politica/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBUCHANAN: Impeachment, a bridge too farhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/7/buchanan-impeachment-bridge-too-far/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Increasingly, across this city, the "I" word is being heard.</p> <p>Impeachment is being brought up by Republicans outraged over President Obama's usurpations of power and unilateral rewriting of laws. And Mr. Obama is taunting John Boehner and the GOP: "So sue me."</p> <p>Democrats are talking impeachment to rally a lethargic ...Patrick BuchananMon, 07 Jul 2014 14:23:03 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/7/buchanan-impeachment-bridge-too-far/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWhite House censors and slows release of information, agencies' workers sayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/white-house-censors-and-slows-release-of-informati/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Though President Obama vowed to run the most transparent administration in history, his White House has quietly empowered itself to censor or delay the release of information in ways that not even Richard Nixon envisioned during the Watergate scandal, according to federal workers on the front lines of processing open ...Jeffrey Scott ShapiroMon, 30 Jun 2014 21:37:08 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/white-house-censors-and-slows-release-of-informati/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBUCHANAN: Is Hillary Inevitable?http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/buchanan-hillary-inevitable/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Looking back over the last century there were two great coalition builders in presidential politics: FDR and Richard Nixon.</p> <p>Franklin Roosevelt broke the Lincoln lock on the presidency that had given Republicans the White House in 56 of the previous 72 years. From 1932 to 1964, FDR's party would win ...Patrick BuchananFri, 27 Jun 2014 14:20:37 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/buchanan-hillary-inevitable/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS